By Shivaji Dasgupta

Rudyard Kipling would have been impressed by the unification of mathematics and creativity in Marcus Du Sautoy’s patently innovative,yet deeply rooted, narrative. For, it empowers us, rather simply, to blend scientific patterns and structures with spontaneous human creations — music , arts, architecture and more. In truth, lovingly curating a linear and symbiotic connection between the two unlikely bedfellows.

Make no mistake, the book is rooted in deep mathematics — Fibonacci numbers, fractals, platonic solids, hyperbolic geometry, prime numbers and their momentous peers — termed thoughtfully as ‘blueprints’. Over generations, this has been a source of much inspiration and, indeed, intimidation, for the creative community most certainly, who have been trained to

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